Details of the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) were unveiled in joint statutory guidance released by the Department of Health and the Department for Education for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities as child death review partners.
The government departments said the collation and sharing of information from child death reviews will be managed initially by NHS Digital and then by the new database when it becomes operational on 1 April.
The NCMD, funded for four years and commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership on behalf of NHS England, will work closely with child death overview panels (CDOPs) which review all child deaths in England.
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